continuation

Example Sentences

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The first quarter was “a continuation of the slower trend we saw last year,” said Walters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"These things that I have built are totemic creatures but also prayer for the existence and continuation of the existence of creatures and insects."

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

He also warned that the war could expand, declaring that the continuation of the conflict “depends on the interests of the parties.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

As Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, war is the continuation of politics by other means.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

The ongoing changes in Irian Jaya represent the continuation, backed by a centralized government’s full resources, of the Austronesian expansion that began to reach New Guinea 3,500 years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond